What's so frightening about gasoline fires is how rapidly they start and how impossible they are to put out once they do, as this unfortunate case with the Toyota shows.
What reassured me from the Tesla fires was how slow they were to start, even the violent crash in Mexico, and how quickly they were extinguished - 30 seconds in the Mexico crash.
There's no extinguishing a full on gasoline fire, as this poor soul, Paul Walker, Michael Hastings, and far too many others have sadly found out.